On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the CollectionDuke University Press, 1993 - 213 páginas Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space. |
Índice
ON DESCRIPTION AND THE BOOK | 3 |
THE MINIATURE | 37 |
THE GIGANTIC | 70 |
THE IMAGINARY BODY | 104 |
OBJECTS OF DESIRE | 132 |
The Collection Paradise of Consumption | 151 |
The Female Impersonator | 166 |
Notes | 174 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the ... Susan Stewart Vista de fragmentos - 1984 |
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the ... Susan Stewart Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Términos y frases comunes
abstract aesthetic animal antiquarian articulation authenticity Baudrillard becomes body Brobdingnag capacity carnival closure collection collector commodity consumer context of origin conventions culture depiction desire detail discourse display distance dollhouse Early Modern France earth art everyday exaggeration example exterior fairies fantastic Febold Feboldson fiction fictive Folklore freak function Gargantua and Pantagruel genres giants grotesque grotesque body Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels Hence human Ibid ideological individual interior inversion kitsch labor landscape language late capitalism literary Literature lived experience Macrocosms and Microcosms marks material means metaphor metonymic microcosm micrographia miniature book mode of production multum in parvo narrative narrator nature nostalgia nostalgic object photographs physical picturesque present Raymond Roussel reader reading relation representation reproduction Roussel scale scene semiotic signified simultaneous social souvenir space speaks spectacle sublime symbolic tableau temporality Thumb wedding tion tourist tradition transcendence transformation ture University viewer writing
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